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Oxford Sunrise
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Eynsham, Oxford by F.W. Wastie. Exhibited in 1942. Fruits have firm, creamy white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Lane's Prince Albert
Accession No.
1945 - 060
- Accession name
- Oxford Sunrise
- Flowering time ›››
- 29th April10% flowering
5th MayFull (80%) flowering
12th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 53.38 mm 1
- Width
- 68.99 mm 1
- Ribbing
- absent 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crumbly 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019